SS Tuggerah

A short video of my dive today on the tuggerah. Conditions were really good.

Hope you like & feel free to give any feedback please.

Cheers Pete.

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A short video of my dive today on the tuggerah. Conditions were really good.

Hope you like & feel free to give any feedback please.

Cheers Pete.

I wished we had that kind of viz on wrecks here in SoCal... although Tec Divers may enjoy that. 48 m let's me think that you were tec diving anyhow (although there was one single cylinder diver - what the heck was he doing at 48 m, the diver at the end clearly had a set of doubles -and a crooked reg in his mouth!). Your video also reminded me why I am not diving wrecks with photographers: those damn strobes!!!

One thing I was not to keen on personally, was the transition from topside to underwater footage... Wouldn't you want to cross-dissolve (in spiral if you want to) rather than spiraling to black? And if I may say, your topside footage was a tad short: I've never been in Australia, I want to see more of it! Underwater, all fish look the same...

Keep up posting!

Yeah the viz was pretty good. The top 20 metres was green & dirty but once we dropped below 20metres then it just turned to blue water!

Yes it is a tec dive, i spent about 25 minutes on the bottom & a total dive time of around 70 minutes so plenty of deco to do!

Having a video camera on deco really makes the time fly, you can sit there & watch back everything you shot!

I am still very much learning the editing side & actually the shooting side also so that is exactly the feedback i am looking for, thankyou.

By cross dissolve, do you mean where the two clips transition on top of each other?

As for the topside, i will start to shoot some more top side stuff also. I didn't really think of shooting too much topside at the time but will definately keep that in mind!

My next video i am making is from a recent weekend in nelsons bay but once again i didn't really shoot any topside footage.

This is only the 4th video i have made!

Cheers Pete.

This is only the 4th video i have made!

Cheers Pete.

Good job! I am still learning myself, having started a couple of years ago, so I cannot be of much advice. In general, use no transition or the simplest unless you want to convey a special meaning (say, a "page turn" when you move on to shots of another part of the wreck, for instance). Fancy stuff is distracting. I don't have any good tip for topside-to-underwater transitions (or inversely). I have used various things: curtain, dip to black, dissolve... or nothing. What I do use though, is a different track (still haven't listen to yours :-(. The transition I choose depends a lot on the tempos of the two tracks.

BTW, how are you holding your housing? I found that in motion, holding my housing one handed helps buffering the unavoidable body motion. And a lot of time, when "immobile" in the surgy conditions we have in SoCal , I end up holding something with my left hand anyhow :-).

But again, I may have it all wrong!

I think i will just stick to cross fades, i do like them!

I mostly shoot one handed & lately i have been favouring my left hand, even though i am right handed. I can use the auto/manual focus knob with my middle finger while still holding the handle.

I have now got the float for the top of my housing & i am finding that has made a big difference as it is almost neutrally bouyant & sooo much easier to operate.

Cheers Pete